Re: Oracle 8.1.7 on Linux Suse 8.0

From: Paul Brewer <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 20:10:28 -0000
Message-ID: <3e623ae5_2@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:pan.2003.03.01.06.42.31.934025_at_yahoo.com.au...
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:44:19 +0000, Norman Dunbar wrote:
>
> > Morning,
> >
> > just stick with it, catalog.sql is doing quite a lot of stuff. I've had
> > one run for about 30 mins (on a slowish server) before now.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Norman.
> >
>
> Eh, Lad! Thou'twer'tlucky! 30 minutes?!! Bloody Luxury!!!
>
> Try running 16 copies of it simultaneously for 16 instances on the one
> server, whilst the classroom next door is doing Backup and Recovery, and
> copying 9 databases around the place (also on the same server).
>
> Go for lunch, and come back to discover it is still chugging along. Teach
> the next chapter... and find it STILL chugging along!!
>
> Fortunately, we've upgraded our server since then (and we seem not to run
> 16-people classes as frequently, either. Strange that).
>
> Regards
> HJR
We had to live in a paper bag in a hole in the ground, and make the instance available half an hour before the backup had completed. Tell that to the kids today, and they won't believe you.

Regards,
Paul Received on Sat Mar 01 2003 - 14:10:28 CST